I WILL NEVER GIVE UP. HE WILL GRADUATE. HE WILL LIVE INDEPENDENTLY. HE WILL FIND TRUE LOVE. HE WILL SURVIVE. HE WILL SHOWER REGULARLY. OR I WILL DIE TRYING. ~MOM

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Monday, August 4, 2008

i was tagged!

Here are her rules:Link to the person who tagged you.

* Mention the rules.

* Tell six quirky yet boring, unspectacular details about yourself.

* Tag six other bloggers by linking to them.

* Go to each person’s blog and leave a comment to let them know that they’ve been tagged.1. i am neither left handed or right handed. i don't even get it.

2. i only own 3 pair of shoes, and i only wear one of them. i wear open toed Teva type sandals year round, regardless of snow coverage. i do not like my feet covered, even though they are now in very poor condition and embarrassing. even when i was on my treadmill every day(been awhile lol) i wore sandals, even to run.

3. i really like rainy days. alot. i love thunder, lightning, wind, the whole thing. i absolutely live for it. if a storm that is supposed to hit us ends up missing us, i am truly dissappointed.

4. i sometimes wish we had never adopted our RAD affected 11 year old son. i wish we had been smart enough to back out after meeting him and watching him try to drown a little girl( a little girl who LOVED and trusted him) in the hotel pool. he also kept antagonizing the bees so that they would sting him. he had over 30 stings in the 6 weeks we were in haiti together. without him, our lives would be happier, more care-free and less stressful, although i would feel guilty for abandoning him like everyone else in his past had done.

5. i am an emotional snacker(big surprise huh? i'm now the size of a manatee)6. my husband and i are not really into having "things". especially electronics. we don't own video games, DVD's, Ipods, (I do have CD's though, just for my truck)there is ONE aging, creeky TV in the entire house(well.. its an 1800SF, 6 room cape, who am i kidding?) not one piece of silverware, glassware or tableware matches another, no plants, no flowers, no candles, no "bricka brack" of any kind...i am always hearing "don't you have a.......??????" i do collect american flags though. so there are plenty of those around here.

we AREN'T alone!

This blog was born in 2006, 3 years after we adopted a little boy from Haiti. Cute as a button? OF COURSE! *difficult* as the day is long? pretttty much. We sure love him to bits, but he makes life.. um.. interesting, to put it gently. It started as a family blog but has become so much more, atleast to me. Reactive Attachment Disorder is only one piece to Jackson's diagnosis puzzle, and along the way we've met so many other bloggers dealing with the same daily struggles -and sometimes triumphs-and i enjoy sharing in their ups and downs. jump in! I love making new bloggy friends.
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"The process of adopting a child pushes your personal envelope as a woman, as a mother, and ultimately, as a human being. It takes more courage than you think you have, offers more self-knowledge than you think you want, and reassembles your characteristics into someone familiar but changed."

-Jana Wolff, Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother

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nature's first green is goldher hardest hue to holdher early leaf's a flowerbut only so an hourthen leaf subsides to leafso Eden sank to griefso dawn goes down to daynothing gold can stay -Robert Frost